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Page 12
... sort out my thoughts on the subjects that have chiefly interested me during the course of my life . But such conclusions as I have come to have drifted about my mind like the wreckage of a foundered ship on a restless sea . It has ...
... sort out my thoughts on the subjects that have chiefly interested me during the course of my life . But such conclusions as I have come to have drifted about my mind like the wreckage of a foundered ship on a restless sea . It has ...
Page 33
... sort of magic in the written word . The idea acquires substance by taking on a visible nature , and then stands in the of its own clarification . But this sort of obscurity merges way very easily into the wilful . Some writers who do ...
... sort of magic in the written word . The idea acquires substance by taking on a visible nature , and then stands in the of its own clarification . But this sort of obscurity merges way very easily into the wilful . Some writers who do ...
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... sort . Fisher Unwin must have been dismayed when he received it . It was a novel set in Italy during the Renaissance and it was founded on a story I had read in Machiavelli's History of Florence . I wrote it because of some articles by ...
... sort . Fisher Unwin must have been dismayed when he received it . It was a novel set in Italy during the Renaissance and it was founded on a story I had read in Machiavelli's History of Florence . I wrote it because of some articles by ...
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